Re: Kmail regex searches

Hi,

Hm, I have a different one without the regex possibility (see attachment).
Maybe you have a newer KMail version. But whenever it is ther, it should 
function og course.


On Tuesday, 2 May 2023 10:36:01 CEST Colin Close wrote:
> Hi, Yes Kmail has a menu option under the tools > find messages menu that
> allows one to select matches that fit a regex or select matches that do not
> match the regex. See attached screenshot. Incidently I am a proud grandad
> of 7 grandchildren :)
> Mozilla Thunderbird supports these options.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Colin Close
> 
> On Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:13:14 BST Henk van Velden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Do you have any indication (e.g. in the documentation of Kmail) that Kmail
> > is supporting regex in it's search field. That search is typically an
> > end-users feature and I doubt that anybody expects that end-users (like
> > your grandma) have any idea about regular expressions.
> > 
> > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:53:46 CEST Colin Close wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I wonder if you can help me? I have been trying to clean up a large mail
> > > collection which has mega quantities of spam. One search that I am
> > > trying
> > > to perform is to search for percentages. The form [0-9][0-9]% does not
> > > seem
> > > to work..the same construct in Thunderbird works fine. I have no
> > > explanation for this other than maybe in Kmail some characters may need
> > > escaping. Any help gratefully received.
> > > 
> > > Colin Close


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Met vriendelijke groet,
Henk van Velden